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\u201cTheir deficiency in the playoffs was not having a go-to scorer,\u201d a Western Conference scout said (via ESPN\u2019s Tim Bontemps<\/a>). \u201cNow, they have Kevin Durant.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n A future Hall of Famer and one of the game\u2019s all-time great scorers, Durant remains in elite form after earning his 15th career All-Star berth last season.<\/p>\n Of 20 total votes, the Durant trade received 11 votes as the 2025 offseason\u2019s best move. The second-place finisher was Orlando\u2019s acquisition of Desmond Bane from Memphis.<\/p>\n With three votes, Houston finished third in the poll question on which team had the best 2025 offseason, trailing the Atlanta Hawks (seven votes) and Denver Nuggets<\/a> (four votes).<\/p>\n Though the Durant-led Rockets are certainly now among the league\u2019s 2025-26 championship contenders<\/a>, they didn\u2019t receive any votes on the topic of which team will win the West and the NBA. Via ESPN\u2019s offseason survey, all 20 of those votes went to the Nuggets (two votes) or the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (18 votes).<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n More: <\/strong>Podcast: Who should the Rockets choose as their fifth starter?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: Kevin Durant to Rockets: NBA staffers rate it as best offseason move<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n In a poll of NBA staffers conducted by ESPN, more than half rated the Houston Rockets\u2019 trade acquisition of Kevin Durant as the best move of the 2025 offseason. \u201cTheir deficiency in the playoffs was not having a go-to scorer,\u201d a Western Conference scout said (via ESPN\u2019s Tim Bontemps). \u201cNow, they have Kevin Durant.\u201d Advertisement … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kevin-Durant-to-Rockets-NBA-staffers-rate-it-as-best.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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